RANDALLSTOWN, MD – Many people believe in the superstition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, but for a Randallstown woman, it was a lucky one.
The woman, who said she takes a scientific approach to play the lottery, won $2,000,000 in the Maryland Lottery’s Gold Rush scratch-off game.
“It’s all about studying the games,” she said. “You gotta do your homework.”
She says she checks the lottery website to make sure the grand prize tickets are still available in the games before she buys tickets. When she realized the $30 per ticket Gold Rush game still had four jackpot-winning tickets at large, she knew she had to play it, even with the hefty price tag.
“They list how many top prizes each ticket still has. Those are the ones I focus on,” she said. “That’s a $30 game, so I don’t buy them too often. But whenever I win $50 or so, I’ll get one.”
She used winnings from previous tickets to buy her $2,000,000 winning ticket.
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At first, she didn’t believe her eyes and had to check the ticket over more than once.